Eye for an eye- that a person who has injured another person returns the offending action to the originator in compensation.
Phrase was used frequently in the Hebrew Bible.
Who Used It?
The U.S. uses it when someone gets the death penalty for murder.
Was used in ancient Egypt
Pros
Murder rates will go down.
Out of a sample of 164 paroled Georgia murderers, eight committed subsequent murders within seven years of release.
The Fifth Amendment provides that '[n]o persons shall be held to answer for a capital...crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury...nor be deprived of life...without the due process of law.'
The death penalty work 100 percent of the time and the ciminal cannot commit another crime.
There is no proof that anyone innocent has been excecuted in the last century
Eye for an Eye
Who Used It?
Pros